Mail-bag



(No Model.)

D. P. BROPHY.

MAILBAG.

NO. 331,472. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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UNiTEn STATES PAiENT OFFICE.

v DENNIS P. BROPHY, OF NOKOMIS, ILLINOIS.

MAIL-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 331.472, dated December 1,1885.

Application tiled May 18, 1885. Serial No. 165,937. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, DnNNrs P. BRorHY, of Nokomis, Montgomery county,Illinois, have invented a new and. useful Improvement in Mail-Bags, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved mail-bag provided at the mouth with spring-straps, which keep the mouth of the bag open when the flap is raised and closed when the iiap is lowered.

The invention consists in the combination, with a mail-bag having a flap, of spring-straps secured bn the flap and on the bag at the mouth, and of a lock-plate and lock-casing secured on the flap and mouth part of the bag, respectively.

The invention also consists in parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures. Figure l is a front view of my improved mailbag, the fla-p being raised. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line x x, Fig. l.

The mail pouch or bag A is provided with the rlap B for covering the mouth, and on the inside of the said flap two spring-metal straps, C, are secured, which extend from alock-plate, K, on the flap to the ends of the flap, where they are secured to metal end pieces, D, secured on the inner surface of the liap and having their lower ends hinged on heads or buttons E, which are swiveled on metal clips H, secured on the bag or pouch at the ends of the mouth. Spring-metal straps F have their outer ends secured to the clips H and eX- tended to a lockcasing, J, on the front of the bag at the middle of the mouth-edge, the straps being held'by clips or other devices on the bag. The lock-plate K is provided with a 5 rib, L, which fits in a groove, M, in the casing J, andis there held by suitable locking devices `of any well-known constructionin the casin@ J.

:Ihe spring-straps C and F have their outer ends bent in such a manner that when the bag is open the outer ends of the bag are inclined toward eachother and hold the bag open, and when the flap is swung down the straps C rest on the straps F and hold the flap in place.

By swinging the flap B down on the front of the bag the rib L is brought into the groove M in the casing J and automatically locked, the springstraps C F having the requisite sliding action to permit of such swinging action of the iiaps.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination, with a mail-bag having a liap adapted to close over the mouth, of

spring-straps secured on the flap and on the A bag at the mouth, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a mail-bag having a iiap at the mouth, of springs secured to the flap and to the bag at the mouth, .and a lockplate and casing secured on the flap and bag, substantially as herein shown and decribed.

3. The combination, with a mail-bag having the flap B at the mouth, of the lock-plate K on the flap,.the spring-straps C, secured on 75 the flap, the end pieces, D, secured on the ends of the flap and hinged on buttons E, the clips H on the bag, in which clips the buttons E are swiveled, the spring-straps F on the bag, and the lock-casing J on the bag, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The combination, with a mailbag having a flap, of end pieces on the ends of the flap, clips on the sides of the bag at the mouth, and of buttons swiveled on the clips, in which but- 8 5 tons the end pieces on the flap are pivoted, substantially as herein shown and described.

DENNIS P. BROPHY.

Vitnesses:

Anios L. CULP, J onN KINNEY. 

